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This blog is about speculative biology. Recurrent themes are biomechanics, the works of other world builders, and, of course, the planet Furaha.

Saturday, 14 March 2009

How much more Speculative Biology is there?

Call it fictional biology, speculative evolution, alternate evolution or call it anything else, by rearranging these words at will or finding others. I like it, and I also like art concerning alien lifeforms (wildlife art in general and palaeontological art are also nice but left out of this blog; it should have some focus, blurry as it may be).

I know of books, documentaries and websites, and some are listed in the links section on the Furaha site, but there may well be more material I never knew about. The excellent work on hypothetical future evolution on Earth I discussed lately (here and here) was completely unknown to me, and I had not seen it mentioned on other sites either. So perhaps there are more sites or books like that. If so, I would like to know about them!

Why not ask you, the reader? I am looking for quality material with preferentially a good visual side to it, i.e. good artwork. If you know of anything good, simply mention it in a comment. I do not care about the form: books, documentaries and films are all acceptable. All languages are good (admittedly, I will need pictures if the language is not Germanic or Romance...).

To see how many experts are out there, I will post a picture of an interesting beast I found on the internet. I will come back to it later, and will then give full credit to its origins and provide the address.

Meanwhile, you can see that the artist knows his or hers business (although the biomechanics contain some oddities). Do you know where it is from?

6 comments:

I have the same idea, by the way. And I collected some links of this kind... Just look.First of all, Metazoica, the world 50 MY in the future, mostly mammalian evolution:http://www.metazoica.comSite made and perfectly illustrated by Cassandra Rivera (aka Timgal).http://www.metazoica.blogspot.comBlog of this site.Language: English.***Great Spec:http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/%7Ea0000265/Spec/And Yahoo group for discussing:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DinosaurMailingList-KilledThreads/Language: English.***Snaiad by Nemo Ramjet - life in alien world:http://www.snaiad.com/Perfectly illustrated site and marvellous ideas of alien species.Language: English.***Some forbidden now blogs of Tim Morris:http://squamozoic.blogspot.com/Squamozoic, the world where squamates won.http://piatnitskysaurus.blogspot.com/Collection of ideas for futuristic and speculative evolution projects.http://spectim.blogspot.com/Some ideas for Spec.Language: English.***http://www.eobasileus.blogspot.com/One more interesting blog about nature. Early posts from last years are dedicated to Spec ideas. Illustrations are also present there.Language: English.***Worlds of Robert Ibatullin - life at Nu Phoenicis; the world of thousand-year-long day; visions of future history of mankind and Solar system.http://robert-ibatullin.narod.ru/conworlds.htmlIdeas are exact from the point of view of astronomy and climatology, but poorly illustrated.Language: Russian.***And my project - poorly illustrated and only partly translated into English - Neocene, life on Earth 25 MY in the future, after man and without mankind.http://www.sivatherium.h12.ru/englver.htmLanguage: English. Sorry for grammar mistakes.I'm not iron man to translate the project completely into English. Just compare to Russian version:http://www.sivatherium.h12.ru/rab_budu.htmLanguage: Russian.